COMPANY PROFILE
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Technology Architecture and Modernization
Technology Architecture & Modernization (A+M) unites a highly inter-connected set of functions in a pivotal role driving the over-arching technical framework, product delivery and developer enablement teams at the center of Morgan Stanley's technology strategy. Combining efforts to modernize technologies, architecture and development practices, A+M drives the Firm's multi-year Technology Modernization roadmap to more effective and innovative technology platforms, enabling our business to serve evolving client demands in a highly competitive industry.

As the group expands and matures, we continue to add top technical talent, experienced professionals driven by the pursuit of engineering excellence, looking for complex and challenging technology roles with impact, visibility and unparalleled opportunities to work across Technology in multi-disciplinary collaboration with high performing teams, including our Distinguished Engineers.

Position Overview:
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated GenAI Solutions & Strategy Vice President to join our team at Morgan Stanley. The successful candidate will be responsible for prototyping, developing, and advising on generative AI-based solutions to enhance business processes across the Firm. This role will liaise with business teams across the Firm, technology, vendors, and centralized AI teams to accelerate the development and adoption of AI-based solutions.

Key Responsibilities

1. GenAI Solutioning & Architecture

• Lead rapid prototyping and development of Generative AI solutions aligned to prioritized business use cases.
• Provide (or orchestrate) solution architecture guidance leveraging strategic platforms, including collaboration with foundational model providers and their engineering teams for advanced or custom implementations.
• Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data, and integration standards.
• Partner with platform owners and engineering teams to drive productionization and long-term sustainability of solutions.

2. Technical Enablement & Reusable Patterns

• Build, publish, and maintain reusable reference architectures, design patterns, and guardrails to enable consistent, compliant, and scalable GenAI development.
• Ensure all assets are discoverable, well-documented, and routinely refreshed in alignment with evolving platform capabilities and regulatory expectations.
• Act as a central interface to route use cases to appropriate platforms, reducing duplication and streamlining intake and governance processes.

3. Testing, Evaluation & Optimization

• Design and implement robust evaluation frameworks for Generative AI use cases, including automated testing, benchmark datasets, and human-in-the-loop assessments.
• Establish quality standards and continuously monitor model performance to ensure outputs meet enterprise thresholds for accuracy, safety, and reliability.
• Identify issues in model behavior and drive optimization strategies, including prompt engineering, fine-tuning, or architecture adjustments.

4. Requirements Management & Platform Feedback Loop

• Establish structured mechanisms to capture technical requirements (e.g., integrations, APIs, connectors, data constraints) emerging from use cases.
• Translate and communicate these requirements to platform and infrastructure teams to influence roadmap prioritization and capability development.
• Surface net-new demand signals and emerging use cases to inform strategic platform investments.

5. Stakeholder Engagement & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Build strong partnerships with business unit-aligned technology leaders, product owners, and risk/governance stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted advisor to accelerate delivery, solve complex or novel use cases, and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
• Collaborate with external vendors and model providers to leverage leading-edge capabilities.

6. Risk Management & Governance Alignment

• Proactively identify risks related to model performance, data handling, compliance, and implementation.
• Ensure adherence to firmwide AI governance, security, and regulatory standards.
• Develop mitigation strategies and implement controls to support safe and responsible AI deployment.

7. Performance Monitoring & Reporting

• Define and track KPIs and success metrics across use cases, including adoption, performance, and business impact.
• Provide regular reporting and insights to stakeholders, highlighting progress, risks, and opportunities for optimization.
• Continuously refine processes and frameworks to improve delivery efficiency and effectiveness.

Qualifications & Skills

• Demonstrated experience in Generative AI solutioning, product development, experimentation, or innovation within an enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, including LLM architectures, evaluation methodologies, and deployment patterns.
• Experience with solution architecture, system integration, and scalable platform-based development.
• Proven ability to operate in a complex, matrixed organization and manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience collaborating with external vendors or model providers is preferred.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with high attention to detail.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices​ into your browser.

Expected base pay rates for the role will be between$150,000 and $210,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.